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Author: Andrew McRobb
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Subject: Re: Hello Phoenix Linux Users Group! What Goes On at Installfest?
Funny enough I was just thinking doing this for the holidays. What’s the
process of doing this?

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:11 AM Stephen Partington <>
wrote:

> ususally a mix of both. I know I attended one at a Sr living center that
> had a bunch of people from the area interested in swapping their degrading
> XP install for something that does the job with less fuss.
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:09 AM, <> wrote:
>
>>
>> Interesting... is this 10 - 25 new Linux users or people that gather
>> together to learn Linux?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-12-13 21:04, Todd Cole wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew
>> We usually have most equipment and media on a server with PDF Books ISO
>> we can install all major distro's. Most use debian based attendance is
>> usually between 10 25 but Dec is usually
>> on the quiet side and more project based the installs. we work on servers
>> raspberry pi projects router mods--any linux project is fair game and
>> expect 50% new users and 50% experts so between everyone
>> we can handle a;most any project Todd
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Andrew McRobb <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm completely new to meetups, and thought this would be the best way to
>>> say hello in this sort of community. I'm interested in going to the
>>> upcoming Installfest (not 100% sure if I can go or not), and had some
>>> questions on what usually goes down.
>>>
>>>
>>>    - What distro does everyone usually work with? (I'm mostly
>>>    comfortable with Debian distros and trying to get into FreeBSD)
>>>    - What's the outcome usually like? How many people usually show up
>>>    wanting to install Linux? How many come from Windows background?
>>>    - Should I bring anything to a Installfest to help out any? I have a
>>>    healthy amount of cables, DVDs (Debian 9 32bit, Linux Mint 18.3 32bit,
>>>    FreeBSD 32bit), and some USB thumbs, and some networking gear.

>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, hope to meet any of you there!
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
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